Making digital
come alive

We merge the human body with the digital world to create new experiences. And emotions.Swipe for more

Experiences are sensory

Human experiences are rooted in the physical.
Neuroscience shows our brain integrates touch with our other senses to create a sense of self by owning our body.

An unreal digital reality

Virtual and augmented reality experiences are currently disconnected from the body – and almost all senses.

Groundbreaking immersive technology

We take immersion to innovative heights.
Our technology creates a sensory experience with lived emotions, truly connecting the body with the digital world. Its uses in our daily lives are limitless.

MetaBody

Our cutting edge deep technology uses two innovations to stimulate the body and the mind

Robotic interface

MetaBody’s robotic interfaces interact with the skin, combining temperature, pressure and vibration to create a realistic tactile experience.

Neuroscience-based algorithms

Our algorithms mimic how the brain merges touch with vision, sound, proprioception and movement to create and restore lifelike multi-sensory experiences.

Soft, flexible and tailored

We use a mix of soft and flexible moulded and 3-D printed touch interfaces tailored to each person’s body and mind for an optimized experience.

MetaBody impact

By combining virtual reality and tactile stimulation, MetaBody has already shown it can create and restore multi-sensory experiences in the real world for real people.

Amputees

MetaBody tricked people with artificial limbs into feeling and using their prosthetic as a real arm, leg or hand, while lessening the pain of a perceived phantom limb.

Paraplegics

Our touch interfaces worn on the arms of a paraplegic patient at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup in 2014, made him feel he was walking. In other studies, our technology restored body perception and reduced pain among spinal cord injury patients.

Illusory presences

Our technology has been used to induce and study complex experiences, such as the uncanny sensations of somebody nearby when no one is actually present.

Our vision

Positively transform lives by merging our physical and digital worlds.

Art

Entertainment

Well-being

AR/VR

Physical and Mental training

Healthcare

Gaming

More coming soon

MetaBody at work

After years of research and trials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), MetaBody is now ready for use in daily lives.

Its innovative technology offers exciting and endless possibilities across diverse sectors.

From healthcare, lifestyle and well-being to entertainment, sports, the workplace and personal development, MetaBody can be adapted for different purposes.

We have created our first product using MetaBody.

STill.

Offering immersive experiences to transform your well-being.

Discover STill

MetaBody licences

MetaBody can help you in your sector or business.

If you want to use MetaBody for a product, we offer licences.

How creative can you be? info@m-physiks.com

Want to invest in the future?

You can get a head start in the world of the future by investing in MetaBody.

Our latest news

Diego Hangartner, Metaphysiks meditation expert, featured on Forbes for his project with the Beyeler foundation.

Art experience is an integral part of of what the Fondation Beyeler sets out to do. This year, in collaboration with USBArt, they have taken it to a new level by presenting an Art Meditation concept hosted by Diego Hangartner.

Metaphysiks was accepted in the Ecole hotelière Incubator Program

Metaphysiks join to incubator of the number one hospitality school worldwide, to accelerate the adoption of Still in hotels and spas.

Metaphysiks and EPFL+ECAL lab collaboration to improve the usability of STill

We need participants! Expert or novice in meditation, join us to test a new guided meditation tool.

News Archive

Our Publications & Spotlights

Multisensory brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness

MetaBody technology is powered by neuroscience algorithms based on Prof. Blanke’s (co-founder and chairman of Metaphysiks) neurobiological model of subjectivity and self-consciousness. In this article published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Prof. Blanke discusses the brain mechanisms involved in multisensory own body perception and argues why these bodily signals are essential for self-consciousness. (Science – Part I).

A flexible multimodal tactile display for delivering shape and material information

In this article published within a collaboration between Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Swiss Federal institute of Technology (EPFL), Dr. Gallo, co-founder and Head of Technology of Metaphysiks, lays the foundation for MetaBody unique tactile interfaces. This is the first successful development of a multimodal tactile technology providing pressure and temperature on a flexible substrate. (Technology – Part I).

Assimilation of virtual legs and perception of floor texture by complete paraplegic patients receiving artificial tactile feedback

In this pioneering work published in Nature Scientific Reports, missing haptic sensations from the lower body of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients were remapped on their upper limbs using a wearable haptic interface. Dr. Gallo, Metaphysiks’s co-founder, developed the haptic interface and greatly contributed to the experiential paradigm that induced in patients the unique sensation of walking on different ground types, from sand to concrete. This research was part of the Walk Again Project and was show-cased in the open ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2014 where one of the patients, Juliano Pinto, clad in an exoskeleton gave the ceremonial kick-off of the World Cup (Experience Engineering – Part I).